There is a great deal of controversy about early Changtai. Generally because people kept playing fast and loose with the truth, and people keep doing all sorts of odd misleading things by accident.

I wondered about that '01 placement. The wrappers were usually for '03 and thereabouts. While there are notable '03 Changtai teas, most recently being hyped is a Bulang that uses a similar wrapper (and the top product 250g is always popular), by and large, you have to be careful buying Changtai. Only certain sort of products are liable to be good (Yiwu, Jing Gu, a couple other places), and many people put them into wet or bad storage (for the early ones). Skip4tea's lack of information and consignment model makes it a pretty bad idea to buy something like that Changtai without more information or samples.

Changtai was good when Yiwu was cheap enough..they didn't have farms but bought from farms..the price of Yiwu bushes went up few years ago (dunno exact year)..like Six Mountain..their later stuffs became so-so